chaletian: (pgw bertie ponders)
chaletian ([personal profile] chaletian) wrote2008-09-18 10:32 am
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"Obviously I don't eat the whole asparagus, I'm not a monster!"

So, Katie and I recently read the comic Jesus Hates Zombies (which I imagine is true). Jesus is sent back down from heaven by God to fight the good fight when the world is taken over by a zombie plague. All I’m thinking is, how much cooller would it have been if his sidekick was not Laz the zombie but instead a now-grown-up potential-SAVIOUR-OF-THE-WORLD Suri Cruise. Hah. That would amuse me.

Went to the Bad Film Club last night for Robocop 3, which was joyous (though Robocop’s giant mutant head and tiny mutant face never fail to freak me out), and which bizarrely contained both Inspector Craddock from Miss Marple and Josh from The West Wing (useful for The Game, we thought, and then laughed a lot). Next month is Congo. After that, a bad 80s film with Sylvester Stallone in tight jeans accompanied by a heavy body count. Beauty.

So, I was a little bit horrified at the thought of Sarah Palin believing that dinosaurs roamed the earth (I love that “roam” is the only verb that ever seems to go with “dinosaurs”) 4000 years ago, because, um, yes, there were all sorts of ancient civilisations bopping around at the time, and you’d think one of them at least would have mentioned it. Why would Aristophanes have written The Frogs when he could have written The Huge Fuck-Off Dinosaurs? However, fortunately, upon researching further, I find that apparently (and I am open to correction here) that creationists believe that dinosaurs were around 6000 years ago. So that’s OK then.

Believing in literal creationism, which flies in the face of all scientific evidence, is stupid. This probably seems blunt, and if you happen to read this and you do believe it, I’m sorry if you’re offended, but there you go. I think it’s stupid.

Believe in intelligent design if you want to, but it has no scientific evidence to support it, and is founded on a belief in the existence of God, which doesn’t have any scientific evidence to support it either. It is therefore not a fit subject for a science class, due to the total absence of, um, science. Talk about it in RE by all means, but that’s what it is, a religious belief, not a scientific theory.

I had a whole rant about education and stuff, but to be honest, I just can’t be arsed. You’ve dodged a bullet, there; I was getting quite passionate as I typed.

Anyway. Meh. I’ll go away now.

[identity profile] katie__pillar.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
How does it go? An Israeli Jew by the name of Joshua who was burned at the stake for having a schizophrenic discourse with a god who was created to explain the existence of feet in the absence of the knowledge of the existence of Tony?

[identity profile] katie__pillar.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
I'm cold. I'm getting out.

The man's a genius.

[identity profile] chaletian.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Gonna sit on my towel...

[identity profile] chaletian.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
I LOVE HIS STUFF SO MUCH THAT AFTER I WROTE THAT POEM ABOUT HIM I MIGHT POSSIBLY - NOT THAT I'M 100% ADMITTING IT YET AND THIS IS STILL IN THE SUBJONCTIF OU CONDITIONEL SO DON'T JUDGE ME - HAVE WRITTEN IT DOWN IN THAT CARD THAT SAID "JESUS LOVES EVERYONE, EXCEPT YOU, YOU CUNT" AND SENT IT TO HIM.

*completely ashamed*

[identity profile] katie__pillar.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
Is this the thing that you were too ashamed to tell me last night? Hypothetically?

*thinks that you're awesome*

[identity profile] chaletian.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
Hypothetically. Yes.

I may also (hypothetically) have told him to not get a big head about it, because I'd also just written my fabulous opera about blue poo, so tbh I'm not picky...

[identity profile] katie__pillar.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, you just get more awesome every minute.

[identity profile] kathrynw.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
I have an 'I heart Sarah Palin' badge to wear with IRONY.

[identity profile] chaletian.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
When I am broken and ruined, lying in a pathetic duffel-coated sprawl in a ditch somewhere, I will raise my tiny impotent fist to the skies and croak, "Goddamn you, eBay, for taking all my money with your tat and your books and your comedy knitted loo-roll-ladies!"


(Initially typoed "tiny impotent fish to the skies", which I think would have taken this comment to a level of surrealness which really none of us is ready for.)

[identity profile] kathrynw.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
What I REALLY wanted was a Sarah Palin doll. Well two actually so that I could pose them in inappropriate positions. But ebay, for once, let me down.

[identity profile] chaletian.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
Noooooo! eBay, what have you done?!!!

Well, as Frankie Boyle so very wittily pointed out on MtW the other week, all you really need to do is to get a GI Joe doll and stick a vagina on it... *g*

[identity profile] rosie-rah.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
*goes off to search ebay for Sarah Palin tat*

[identity profile] mrs-redboots.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
But I actually read it as "tiny impotent fish", and then realised what you'd really typed....?

[identity profile] mrs-redboots.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Quite. I happen to be a Christian and believe in a creator - but I believe the Bible stories are just that, stories, telling us the why and the who; the how is better told by looking at the rocks and the streams and the animals.....

[identity profile] donna-k.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I insulted someone in work on Tuesday by ranting about the stupidity of creationism. She went very quiet for the remainder of the day. Ooops?

Btw, my friend to whom I showed your Tim pome loved it, and said it was very clever and she particularly liked verse 4, and you should send it to Tim because he would love it too. :D